CHAPTER XVI.

CONCLUSION.

The primary causes of few diseases are fully understood-- Prevention of insanity must come mainly from education received at home and in the school--Difficulties in the way of securing any efficient preventive measures--Educational processes may be improved in several ways: (1) by securing a larger degree of _individuality_; (2) more attention to industrial education; (3) more efficient home education--Changes in certain habits; (1) in reference to the use of alcoholic beverages; (2) in the use of tobacco; (3) the importance of longer periods of rest and recreation; (4) improved sanitary surroundings in those portions of cities occupied by the poor and laboring classes of society--The importance of systematic measures toward the prevention of insanity 237